Until now, the implementations available to the VFX industry for these effects have been substantial approximations, which inherently produced errors and artifacts. RenderMan's new subsurface approach significantly increases quality and realism when rendering skin and other soft or delicate materials, which is essential for creating believable characters.

Cryptomatte

Developed for Production

Cryptomatte is a tool created at Psyop by Jonah Friedman and Andy Jones. It creates ID mattes automatically with support for motion blur, transparency, and depth of field, using organizational information already available at render time.

The Easy Button!

Clean up sampling noise 2-4x faster with RenderMan's Denoiser! Developed by Disney for Big Hero 6, the Denoiser has been used on all Pixar films since Finding Dory. It has recently been upgraded with several new features, including full Intel CPU code vectorization. For Zootopia, Disney optimized the Denoiser to handle lots of fur and hair, while at Pixar the Denoiser was extended to support GPU acceleration, reducing the time required to denoise a feature film frame to seconds.

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